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... soon grew to be an expert hunter and backwoodsman . Even as a boy the gravity of his character mental and physical those about him , and vigor commended him to and his responsibility and military command were put in his hands at an age ...
... soon grew to be an expert hunter and backwoodsman . Even as a boy the gravity of his character mental and physical those about him , and vigor commended him to and his responsibility and military command were put in his hands at an age ...
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... soon realized that that form of government was an utter failure . In a time when no American statesman except Hamilton had yet freed himself from the local feelings of the colonial days , Washington was thoroughly national in all his ...
... soon realized that that form of government was an utter failure . In a time when no American statesman except Hamilton had yet freed himself from the local feelings of the colonial days , Washington was thoroughly national in all his ...
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... soon came back again with a party of hunters ; and other parties like- wise came in , to wander for months and years through the wilderness ; and they wrought huge havoc among the vast herds of game . In 1771 Boone returned to his home ...
... soon came back again with a party of hunters ; and other parties like- wise came in , to wander for months and years through the wilderness ; and they wrought huge havoc among the vast herds of game . In 1771 Boone returned to his home ...
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... soon s founded by Boone , and lived there for or camping by him- after it was f a year , either at the stations the woods , surveying , hunting , and making against the Indians like any other settler ; but all the time his mind was bent ...
... soon s founded by Boone , and lived there for or camping by him- after it was f a year , either at the stations the woods , surveying , hunting , and making against the Indians like any other settler ; but all the time his mind was bent ...
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... soon penned the regulars within their fort , where they kept them surrounded all night . The next day a party of Indian warriors , who in the British in- terest had been ravaging the settlements of Ken- tucky , arrived and entered the ...
... soon penned the regulars within their fort , where they kept them surrounded all night . The next day a party of Indian warriors , who in the British in- terest had been ravaging the settlements of Ken- tucky , arrived and entered the ...
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